Why You Should Blog With Community in Mind and How to do it
Basically can you see blogging as being about publishing or about community. If you believe blogging to be merely about publishing is content production the main purpose and occupation. You may interact with others when looking for inspiration and when researching just as you will probably be contacted by people when you do something right (and definitely when you do something wrong). However, is blogging from this perspective mostly one-way communication. A much richer scenario offers the community perspective (or should I call it the circular communication perspective?) where the content acts as the foundation and where as much as …
Why Some Writers Almost Always Write Spectacular Headlines
Writing a great headline is a lot of work unless you are born with the gift of just being able to pull them out your sleeve. Writers who write spectacular headlines know that and are willing to invest the time it takes to get it right. As with most things is excellence only achievable through practical experience, but you may as well learn all you can from others before starting your own journey towards writing better headlines.
What do You Believe is Better? Doing it Often or Doing it at Length?
Finding the balance between information overload and too little information too seldom can be difficult. In fact this is one of the eternal discussions among bloggers and everyone else who publish on the internet. However, I feel it is like searching for the holy grail - a never-ending search that doesn’t even adequately reward those who participate in it. Personally I hence decided to read the best articles that I could find on the matter and then basically forget about it. At the end of the day does the absolute and ideal in this regard exist as little as in …
A Beginners View on the First Weeks of Blogging and Beyond
One of the first post on this blog was The Top 5 things to do Before You Launch Your Own Blog. Since I now have a few more posts under my blogging belt do I feel adequately comfortable writing the follow up if you will.
After having installed, designed and tuned your blog are you ready to actually start blogging. The question is where to start. As explained in the before-mentioned article did I after looking at a couple of other blogs first posts decide to make a welcome post including why I wanted to blog, what I intended …
My Top 5 from the Successful Blog Metaphor Project
A couple of weeks ago Liz Strauss at Successful Blog started a group project asking “What’s Your Blogging Metaphor?” There was a lot of great entries so I am particularly proud that “10 Basic Tips for Starting a Blog Using Gardening as Metaphor” was picked among the 10 winners of an autographed copy of Lorelle’s book “Blogging Tips — What Bloggers Won’t Tell You About Blogging.” even if it was “selected randomly by a man, who paid so little attention that he doesn’t know what this contest is about” as Liz poetically put it.
Liz phrased the intention behind …
